Performance zoning is a land use planning concept that has its roots in building codes that established performance standards as opposed to specification standards. This is the manual that introduced the concept of performance zoning and includes a complete in depth review and analysis model ordinance based on Bucks County. There are advantages to the performance zoning approach. In some ways it requires less administrative involvement, since variances, appeals and re-zonings are not necessary. It also gives more flexibility both to the municipality and to the developer, allowing more of a range of land uses, as long as their impact is not negative....A primary disadvantage of performance zoning is that as a result of its flexibility it is subject to a steeper learning curve. Author Lane Kendig has experience in land use planning, growth management, housing, environmental planning, zoning and land use controls, site and land design, and impact and feasibility analyses. He has worked throughout the United States and in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. His projects include comprehensive plans and implementing regulations; zoning, subdivision, and land development regulations; and impact and management systems. He has written plans and ordinances separately and simultaneously and studied special problems concerning economic development, transportation, growth management, special zoning regulations, and open space programs, among others.

Performance Zoning

Kendig, Lane

Planners Press, American Planning Association

Even zoned rural communities can experience traffic network failure when development encroaches. Improving roads to meet demand is often financially impossible for rural counties. Implementing traffic sheds—a relatively new planning concept—offers one solution. Traffic shed analysis is worthy of consideration in counties where standard growth management techniques have been met with resistance and traffic congestion problems are starting to emerge. The traffic shed concept is, first, an analytical tool. If analysis indicates that traffic on existing roads is nearing or has exceeded available capacity, planners may use the results to persuade local officials to address growth issues. When used as a regulatory system, a traffic shed directs rural traffic in one directlon along designated county and township roads to major arterials leading to urban areas. Planners calculate road capacity, using standard transportation methodology, to implement a traffic shed system. The report is illustrated with maps, charts, and diagrams, and includes a detailed case study of traffic shed analysis and implementation in Williamson County, Tennessee.

Traffic Sheds, Rural Highway Capacity, and Growth Management (American Planning Association: Planning Advisory Service Report)

Arts & Photography

Tocknell, Stephen

Architecture

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Cookie-cutter boxes line up like plastic houses on a Monopoly board. Brawny new construction shoulders into established neighborhoods. Monster houses crowd together in new subdivisions. Today's bigger, faster, cheaper home building methods are changing the character of communities, but there are ways to both preserve character and meet market demand. This report offers planning and design tools to tame the too-big house, shake free of monotonous development, and negotiate the political minefield of teardowns.

Too Big, Boring, or Ugly: Planning and Design Tools to Combat Monotony, the Too-big House, and Teardowns

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Performance Zoning

Traffic Sheds, Rural Highway Capacity, and Growth Management (American Planning Association: Planning Advisory Service Report)

Too Big, Boring, or Ugly: Planning and Design Tools to Combat Monotony, the Too-big House, and Teardowns